Plenty Of Great Cricket To Watch

It has been a busy week watching Australia and Pakistan U/19 teams lock horns in three one-day day/night games this week.

Pakistan won the first two games played here. However Australia had come with a 2 - 0 win line from games which had been played in Brisbane over the weekend just gone. In Thursday's game the Pakistanis chased down 310 runs to win with three overs to spare.

Most games finish at 8:30 pm and I am usually well and truly back home before then so I don't get to see the end of these matches.

At the beginning of yesterday's match the score line was 2 games all. Australia batted first and made 275. The young chap from my former team Dandenong of 35 years ago (Kumar Sarna -Indian born - New Delhi but has been living here for over 10 years) opened for Australia and made a patient 48. When I left the Pakistanis had cruised to 50 in 6 overs but a collapse then saw them to 4 for 64. I was told that most of the better Pakistan batsmen had been dismissed so things were looking good. Here Kumar sets out to open for Australia.

Kumar opened the batting for Dandenong in this year's Premier District Cricket Grand Final. Though not having played for Dandenong for many years now I still have a strong affection for the club. They were great days from years gone by and I remain a staunch barracker and supporter of Dandenong Cricket Club.

I had spent the morning showing Kumar's mum and dad around Caloundra. They seemed to enjoy it very much. We visited the boardwalk, King's Beach, the new pool (as seen in this photo), Shelly Beach and Dicky Beach. On a previous day they had caught the bus then train from Caloundra to the Gold Coast for a look around!

It was good being able to talk about the times I had spent in India. We all seemed to get on very well together!



Kumar fields very well and has a very good throwing arm. Needless to say he is number 11 as you have probably guessed from this photo.






On a different topic, I like to use Firefox to look around the web. Most people use Internet Explorer and it is certainly better now it has gone to version 7. Microsoft have borrowed many of their new ideas from Firefox and now both browsers work similarly. I had noticed Firefox wasn't working as well as usual and wouldn't do things it had done easily and safely before. I totally uninstalled it, did a search of the hard drive and got rid of any other folders with "Firefox" in the name then went back and reinstalled the program again from scratch.

The difference now is incredible, the program works quickly, smoothly and safely again. With Firefox you can adapt it so it suits the way you want to do things. It has many extensions available for it as well as themes. Therefore you can fully fashion it to do exactly as you want it to do as well as look just right for you.

I have found Outlook Express (the email program) also jams frequently on my computer. This usually involves a 'forced shutdown' - push the power button and a restart. This also means getting off the net then back on again. I no longer use Internet Explorer, I use Firefox's cousin Thunderbird. Again it has extensions and themes too. It is so much easier and smarter to use the Outlook Express.

Both programs are free to download and use.